User blog comment:Jirachilover365/10 Pokemon that deserve to be more rare/@comment-26179935-20170817130006

This post assumes that strength and rarity should be correlated, which might sound, intuitively, like a good idea, but isn't. None of these pokemon are too hard to find in the core series of pokemon games, for a few possible reasons.

1)Serious multiplayer trainers, who couldn't care less about the role-playing aspect of the game(Yes, rarity is a role-playing element of the games, not a serious game mechanic) would have a terrible time getting rare pokemon with the right natures, genders and maybe even IV's if they had to spend hours walking through grass, only to spend further hours later on EV-training.

2)Pokemon is, and was ultimately meant to be a kids game. Having the strong pokemon be too rare would discourage restless kids, and bore them, with endless swarms of rattatas.

3)Many people wouldn't be having fun in the colosseum if only rare pokemon were strong. Veterans and newbies alike. New players who are good at battling, but want to get into a quick scrap would have to hold those urges back for too long, whereas the veteran pool of players might end up being tiny, and grow too slowly over time, lowering the rate of discovery of fantastic trainers.

4)With the role-playing aspect of the games in mind, if the pokemon games were realistic with the rarity of strong pokemon, the strongest would be far more common than the weakest, though this argument is admittedly rather weak.

5)There is already an element of the game suited for those who like having something special and rare, shiny pokemon. The veteran game developers up at gamefreak understand the arguments listed above well, and then some. But they also know that some people just want special things, so they made that special thing have as miniscule a change on the battling aspect of the game as possible.

6)The developers don't want to waste *too* much of your time. That is also a reason why many legendary pokemon are usually event pokemon, effectively making their rarity common. The hard part that gives you a sense of accomplishment is the capturing of said legend, which takes about 5-10 minutes(I'm guessing here), *not* sloshing through wet grass for hours, stepping on a thousand rattata and caterpie corpses.